Christian retailer, Adventist schools and Spanish educators value lecturers’ books
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
Books by two Avondale College lecturers are entering new markets through an Australian Christian retail company, a Seventh-day Adventist Bible curriculum and translation.
You can now find Barbara Fisher’s textbook and Brad Watson’s novel on the bookshelf in Koorong. Credit: Ann Stafford.
The retailer Koorong now stocks Barbara Fisher’s textbook Developing a Faith-based Education: A Teacher’s Manual (David Barlow Publishing) and Brad Watson’s teenage novel Finding David (Signs Publishing Company).
Developing a Faith-based Education: A Teacher’s Manual helps pre-service early childhood and primary teachers planning to work in Australia’s Christian, Protestant schools learn how to share faith development with students.
The book is being translated into Spanish by Drs Raquel and Victor Korniejczuk from the University of Montemorelos (Nuevo León, Mexico). Adventus Books will publish the translation next year.
Finding David follows a character called David as he moves into a new school and meets a new group of friends. It deals with bullying, romance and a mysterious family tragedy. The issues addressed include relationships, resilience and faith.
The book is now one of the resources for Encounter, a new Bible curriculum for Adventist secondary schools in Australia and New Zealand. Discussion guides and activity sheets for each of the 26 chapters are freely available on the Finding David website for those using the book as a learning or teaching tool.